We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our frontend and mobile devs. Ideally: 1. You’re highly skilled in UX design, having led product strategy & design process 2. Proficient in Figma/Penpot, with interaction & usability design skills 3. Experienced in accessibility & privacy-conscious design This remote fulltime position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone. For more info/to apply:
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We are thrilled to welcome Echo (@npub19td6...g68x) to the Mastodon core team as our first front-end developer! Look out for future enhancements to the web user interface and user experience as we expand the range of expertise on the team. 🥳
We will need to retire the option to use namespaces in Redis (i.e. setting the REDIS_NAMESPACE environment variable) in Mastodon 4.4. If you run a Mastodon server and currently use Redis namespaces, please have a look at this discussion and leave some feedback:
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Retiring Redis Namespaces · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #34198
Background Mastodon has supported using a dedicated namespace for keys in redis for a long time. The idea was that several applications (or instanc...
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.6, 4.2.19 and 4.1.24. They contain important security fixes. We recommend server administrators to update as soon as possible if they use SAML, or are on the development version. If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the nightly.2025-03-14-security tag. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.5 and 4.2.18. They contain a few minor bug fixes. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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We posted our monthly engineering update, Trunk & Tidbits - a bit lighter than usual, but there is still plenty going on. We are about to end support for version 4.1.x, so upgrade now! Also, check out our picks from around the community 👍🏻
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025
Development updates from the Mastodon team. Code changes and updates made during February 2025.
We just released Mastodon 4.3.4, 4.2.17 and 4.1.23. They contain bug fixes as well as security fixes (medium severity) We recommend every instance administrator to update as soon as possible. If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the `nightly.2025-01-27-security` tag. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:
Mastodon Blog
Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon
Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.
Our #TrunkAndTidbits engineering update for January (also including #FOSDEM) is here - here's what we have been working on so far this year. Includes an update on the #Fediscovery project, and some cool projects from the broader developer ecosystem.
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025
News and updates from the Mastodon developers. Technical changes from January 2025, and what the core team did at FOSDEM.
We just released Mastodon 4.3.3, 4.2.15 and 4.1.22. They contain a few bug fixes as well as a security fix (medium severity,
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Partial Denial of Service due to insufficient validation of remote actors
### Summary Insufficient validation of remote actors and error handling, invalid actors can cause a Mastodon servers to fail at performing certa...
) We recommend every instance administrator to update as soon as possible. If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the `nightly.2025-01-17-security` tag. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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